Quotes About Wholeness

We are not separate from spirit, we are in it.

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.

It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

True peace can only be attained when spiritual and psychological balance is achieved.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

Man will be fully a person, a per se subsistens and a per se operans, only in so far as the life of reason and liberty dominates that of the senses and passions in him; otherwise he will remain like the animal, a simple individual, the slave of events and circumstances, always led by something else, incapable of guiding himself; he will be only a part, without being able to aspire to the whole.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

Reality is the harmony which gives to the component parts of a thing the equilibrium of the whole.

I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?

All she wishes is for her life to be integrated, to be one thing, rather than an eternal series of oppositions that confound her whichever way she looks.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.

When you're eating a bowl of pho, you're eating everything you need.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.

Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it? if not the intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming.

Often when I imagine you, your wholeness cascades into many shapes. You run like a herd of luminous deer, and I am dark; I am forest.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.